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THE GLOBE EDITION.
THE POETICAL WORKS
OF
ALEXANDER POPE,
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON BOMBAY • CALCUTTA· MADRAS
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK. BOSTON • CHICAGO
DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO
SiR ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD M.A. LITT.D.
MASTER OF ST PETER'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1917
CONTENTS.
I
IO
22
.
• 325 328
113
Page
INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR
ix-lii Epistle III. (to Lord Bathurst): of the
PREFACE
use of Riches
244
JUVENILE POEMS
7
Epistle IV. (to the Earl of Burlington):
Pastorals
9
of the use of Riches.
A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry
256
Epistle V. (to Mr Addison. Occasioned
Spring
13
by his Dialogues on Medals)
Summer
263
17
SATIRES
Autumn
267
19
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, being the Pro-
Winter
logue to the Satires
Messiah
270
26 Satires and Epistles of Horace Imitated
Windsor Forest
284
30 The First Satire of the Second Book 286
Odes
41
The Second Satire of the Second Book . 290
Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day
41 The First Epistle of the First Book
Two Chorus's to the Tragedy of Brutus
• 295
43 The Sixth Epistle of the First Book
Ode on Solitude
300
45 The First Epistle of the Second Book
The Dying Christian to his soul
303
46
The Second Epistle of the Second Book 316
Essay on Criticism
47
Satires of Dr Donne Versified
324
The Rape of the Lock
69 Satire II.
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate
Satire IV.
Lady
90
Epilogue to the Satires in Two Dialogues . 334
Prologue to Mi Addison's Tragedy of
Dialogue I.
Cato
• 334
92 Dialogue II.
Epilogue to Mr Rowe's Jane Shore
• 339
94 THE DUNCIAD
TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS
347
97
Preface (1727)
• 352
Sappho to Phaon
99
Advertisement (1729)
Eloisa to Abelard
• 354
104 A Letter to the Publisher
• 355
The Temple of Fame
Advertisement (1742)
January and May
128
• 359
Advertisement (1743)
The Wife of Bath
360
144 Advertisement (Printed in the Journals,
The First Book of Statius his Thebais
153
1730)
The Fable of Dryope
171
Martinus Scriblerus of the Poemi
Vertumnus and Pomona
173 By Authority
Imitations of English Poets
The Dunciad: Book i.
· 363
Chaucer
364
177
Book II.
Spenser (The Alley)
• 377
Book III.
Waller
391
179
Book IV.
403
(Of a Lady singing to her Lute)
Imitations
424
On a Fan of the Author's Design) 179 By the Author : à Declaration
430
Cowley
180
A List of Books, Papers and Verses, &c. 431
(The Garden)
180 Index of Persons celebrated in this Poem
433
Weeping)
180 Index of Matters contained in this Poem
Earl of Rochester (on Silence)
181
and Notes
434
Earl of Dorset
183 MISCELLANEOUS PIECES IN VERSE
439
(Artemisia)
Imitations of Horace
441
(Phryne)
183 Book I. Epistle VII.
Dr Swift (The Happy Life of a Country
Book II. Satire VI.
442
Parson)
184 Book IV. Ode I.
445
MORAL ESSAYS
185 Part of the Ninth Ode of the fourth Book 446
Essay on Man
191 Epistles
447
Epistle I.
193
To Robert Earl of Oxford
Epistle II.
To James Craggs, Esq.
448
Epistle III.
208
To Mr Jervas, with Mr Dryden's Trans-
Epistle IV.
lation of Fresnoy's Art of Painting 449
The Universal Prayer
226 To Miss Blount, with the Works of
Moral Essays in Four Epistles to several
Voiture
451
Persons
228 To the same, on her leaving the Town
Epistle I. (to Lord Cobham): of the
after the Coronation
453
228
Knowledge and Characters of Men On Receiving from the Right Hon. the
Epistle II. (to a Lady): of the Charac-
Lady Frances Shirley a Standish and
ters of Women
236 two Pens
454
176
183
200
216
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